WASHINGTON – Sponsors of the Secure and Succeed Act tonight are releasing legislative text of a framework aimed at providing legal certainty for undocumented children brought to the United States by their parents and preventing others from falling into the same legal limbo in the future. The legislative text includes technical updates from a prior...
American Association for Cancer Research Interview with Senator Chuck GrassleyAACR Interviews Members of CongressTuesday, February 13, 2018 Can you share with our readers, many of whom are cancer survivors, advocates, and researchers, your personal connection to cancer? My wife Barbara is a breast cancer survivor. Diagnosed 30 years ago, our family...
Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Minority Leader’s objections to debating immigrationFebruary 13, 2018VIDEO About 20 minutes ago, our Majority Leader, Senator McConnell tried to move debate along on an immigration bill, and I’m puzzled that the Minority Leader, Senator Schumer,...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the introduction of the Secure and Succeed ActFebruary 12, 2018VIDEO I rise today to announce the formal introduction of an amendment to H.R. 2579, the vehicle for immigration. This amendment, which is co-sponsored by Senators Cornyn, Tillis, Lankford,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today introduced legislation that will help families access life-saving care for children with complex medical conditions.
Children with complex medical needs cannot always receive the highly specialized care they need within their home state. When that happens, parents must work...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan.“President Trump was right in his State of the Union Address to call on Congress to find creative solutions to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure. Nearly everyone agrees we’ve got to rebuild our...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Joni Ernst, today released the following joint statement regarding the nomination of C.J. Williams to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa based in Cedar Rapids. Williams was one of four Iowa lawyers recommended by...
WASHINGTON – As part of their continued efforts to conduct oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) discovered a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold four town meetings on February 21, February 22 and February 23 as part of his annual 99 county meetings.“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without dialogue between...
WASHINGTON – A group of U.S. Senators tomorrow will introduce a common-sense proposal aimed at providing legal certainty for undocumented children brought to the United States by their parents and preventing others from falling into the same legal limbo in the future. Their proposal, which mirrors the White House framework announced by President Trump,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand: “Rachel Brand is an incredibly talented lawyer and Iowa native who has served our country very well in her role as Associate Attorney General. As the Justice...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to the Committee’s Ranking Minority Member today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley outlined the process for preparing for the release of Committee transcripts of interviews with witnesses to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, so that the American people know what the Committee knows in preparation for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced bipartisan legislation along with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) to restore veterans’ Second Amendment rights. Under current practice, once the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) assigns a fiduciary to help a veteran manage benefit payments, the VA will report...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeVeterans’ Second Amendment Rights Restoration Act of 2018February 6, 2018VIDEO Mr. President, I would like to raise a very important issue impacting our veteran population: the systematic denial of their Second Amendment rights. This comes up in...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to update instructions provided to Justice Department component agencies that did not appear to comply with the law. In a recent memorandum to the heads of Justice Department components, Sessions instructed department employees to not...
WASHINGTON – In their continued efforts to secure the previously authorized funding for the Cedar Rapids flood mitigation project, U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Congressman Rod Blum sent a letter to Lieutenant General of the Army Corps of Engineers Todd Semonite and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works R.D. James requesting...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following internal memorandum produced by his energy policy staff who analyzed recent claims made by opponents of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), including Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES), which attributed its recent bankruptcy filing in part to the RFS. The analysis finds that the biofuels...
WASHINGTON – A recent poll, commissioned by the Justice Action Network and conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, indicates overwhelming support for reforms to America’s criminal justice system. Many questions put to poll respondents align closely with the proposed reforms in the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, a bipartisan bill...
